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FLOWERING PLANTS. rl 
Orobanche minor, Sm. Lesser Broomrape. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Generally distributed, but rather rare: more frequent in the low- 
lands of the north-west. This species appears to be more plentiful 
in particular years, though the same may perhaps be said of: others 
of this genus. Although often growing on Z7ifolium pratense, I have 
found it on Plantago Coronopus at Jerbourg; on Lotus corniculatus 
at Cobo, and St. Martin’s Cliffs; and on Medicago maculata near 
‘Grandes Rocques. Var. flavescens, Reut. A plant of this variety 
(determined in a fresh state by Mr. Arthur Bennett) was found in 
Fort Bay in 1893 by Messrs. Derrick and Royle. ‘A form of 
Orobanche minor occurs near Grand Havre, Guernsey, on Leontodon 
-autumnale, which has the corolla curved like O. amethystea, but a 
much shorter and denser spike, and the whole plant, including the 
flowers, is yellow.’ (Zzg/. Bot., 3 ed., vol. vi. p. 200.) 
Orobanche amethystea, Thuill. Bluish Broomrape. 
Native. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Rare. -Plentiful on the cliffs above Bon Repos. In two or three 
localities at Pleinmont. North side of Richmond Hill, in good 
quantity. Field near Les Paysans (vi.) in 1894. I have always 
found this species parasitic on Daucus gummifer, but in Eng/. Bot, 
ed. 3, it is noted as occurring ‘on Lryngium maritimum, near Cobo, 
Guernsey.’ In Alderney it grows plentifully on Eryngium, but I 
. have not met with it there on Daucus. 
Orobanche caerulea, Vill. Purple Broomrape. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
In #7. Sarn. this species is noted for St. George on the authority 
of W. Borrer, jun., and Major H. Smith notes it about twenty years 
later as found on the ‘cliffs westward of St. Martin’s and cliffs 
behind Artillery Barracks ;’ but the plant does not appear to have 
been found again in Guernsey until 1894, when the Rey. G. F. 
Saxby discovered it in a field near the square tower (known as the 
Look-out) at the back of St. George (v111.),—probably Borrer’s old 
station. Babington also records it from his own observation from 
Jersey and Alderney, adding this note: ‘The present plant, which is 
parasitical, I believe, upon Achillea Millefolium, does not agree well 
with O. caerulea, but appears to be intermediate between it and O. 
arenaria.’ ‘This is perfectly correct, at least as far as it applies to 
the Alderney plant ; but, curiously enough, in the later editions of 
the Manual Babington emphasises the statement that the Jersey 
species 1s O. caerulea, while the Alderney one is O. avenaria, Bork. 
In 1900 I sent to Mr. Arthur Bennett a set of fresh specimens 
from Alderney, where the plant is common, and he confirmed my 
opinion that it is certainly not avenxaria, but O. Millefolii, Reich. 
Very probably the Guernsey plant, and perhaps the Jersey one also, 
